Oluale Kossola, the Last Survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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Taking slaves as plunder has been the norm since the beginning of recorded history. In this country certain American Indian tribes took other Indians as personal slaves or to be traded. Mexican settlers and white pioneers were not immune to such treatment. There is evidence that Mormon living in the southwest purchased Paiute children from Ute raiding parties. And a piece of history not widely known is the fact that Mormon's in southern Utah murdered 120 Arkansas immigrants traveling to California. They then took 17 children below the age of 5 from the doomed wagon train, changed their names and placed them with local Mormon families before they were rescued by Federal troops 2 years later. This is known as the Mountain Meadow Massacre.